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MOSCOW, April 10. 2017 /TASS/.

 A court in Moscow has arrested for two months mathematics teacher Dmitry
Bogatov, of a Moscow university, for calls in the Internet for terrorism and
attempts to stage unrest in Moscow, a TASS correspondent reports from the
courtroom.

"The court ruled to sustain the investigator’s request and remand Bogatov in
custody for two months," Judge Yevgeny Naidyonov said.

Bogatov pled not guilty.

"I am innocent. On the day mentioned in the charges I was in a fitness club
together with my wife. After that I went shopping," Bogatov said, adding he was
ready to cooperate.

The Investigative Committee says Bogatov on March 29 posted calls in the
Internet for extremist action in the center of Moscow. His home was searched
and computers and information transmission electronic devices confiscated.



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Russian math teacher to be cleared of extremism charges

January 24, 13:40 UTC+3  2018

The experts confirmed that the laptops and memory cards seized from the
mathematician’s place did not contain any illegal material or evidence linking
him to the alleged crimes

MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Russian mathematics teacher Dmitry Bogatov, accused
of calls for terrorism and an attempt to stage mass riots in Moscow, will be
cleared of all charges soon, a source close to the investigation told TASS on
Wednesday.

"The investigators on Tuesday provided the defense attorneys with the results
of computer forensics that had lasted for eight months," the source said.

The experts confirmed that the laptops and memory cards seized from the
mathematician’s place did not contain any illegal material or evidence linking
him to the alleged crimes. Bogatov will be soon cleared of all charges, the
source said.

The mathematics teacher from a Moscow university was arrested in April after
the calls for extremism in downtown Moscow were published on the Internet on
March 29, 2017. Investigators accused Bogatov of using special software
designed to hide traces of his Internet presence with using servers based in
foreign states.

The teacher’s lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan told TASS proving that his client was not
guilty "was just a matter of time." "It’s rather regrettable that the man was
kept in a pre-trial detention center for more than three months and spent
another five months under house arrest to find out that Bogatov had not been
linked to the posts and alleged crimes," he said.

Bogatov earlier pleaded not guilty, saying he had an alibi that was later
confirmed by a lie detector.